US3295975A - Black-and-white developer for photographic reversal processes - Google Patents

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US3295975A
US3295975A US304660A US30466063A US3295975A US 3295975 A US3295975 A US 3295975A US 304660 A US304660 A US 304660A US 30466063 A US30466063 A US 30466063A US 3295975 A US3295975 A US 3295975A
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Meckl Heinz
Haseler Helmut
Morcher Bernhard
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  • the invention relates to a blackand-white developer for the first development step of photographic reversal materials, more especially color reversal materials.
  • black-and-white developers which are used for developing usual black-andwhite materials, so that new developers had to be discovered for the reversal process, more especially of color reversal materials.
  • black-and-white developers which are intended to be used for the process under discussion may only contain a relatively small quantity of sulphites, since the dissolving of silver chloride by the action of these compounds is to be avoided.
  • Developer substances which are widely used for normal black-andwhite development show disadvantageous eflects in connection with the present process, more especially when processing color reversal papers, and these efiects prevent their use in photographic reversal processes. For instance hydroquinone, for so far unexplained reasons, causes a non-uniform color formation in larger image areas having the same color.
  • developer compositions which contain 3-pyrazolidones and o-phenylene diamine as developer substances are excellently suitable for the first black-and-white development of photographic reversal materials, in particular of color reversal papers. Due
  • m-phenylene diamine and H p-phenylene diamine only cause a slight increase in o-Phenylene diamines which are substituted on the nucleus are also suitable for the developer composition according to the invention, but these generally produce a substantially smaller efiect than the unsubstituted compound.
  • Suitable substituents are, for example, lower alkyl having up to 5 carbon atoms, lower alkoxy groups having up to 5 carbon atoms, halogen atoms such as chlorine or carboxyl groups which can be esterilied with a lower aliphatic alcohol having up to 5 carbon atoms.
  • o-Phenylene diamine by itself at a pH of about 10.0 does not develop any silver halide.
  • a particular advantage is offered by the combination of 3-pyrazolidones with o-phenylene diamine, when processing color reversal materials which contain a silver bromide emulsion as well as silver chloride emulsions in the several layers.
  • the different types of emulsion layers are developed to equal extents.
  • the first reversal developer according to the invention only forms photographically inactive oxidation products.
  • R is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group containing up to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group which can be substituted, for example, by chlorine, lower alkyl groups such as methyl or ethyl, and also lower alkoxy groups such as methoxy, amino, acylamino, for example, acetamino or hydroxy; and R to R represent hydrogen, alkyl radicals containing up to 4 carbon atoms or phenyl radicals.
  • the following compounds exhibit particular utility 1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidone 5 -phenyl-3 -pyrazolidone 5-methyl-3-pyrazolidone 1-p-chlorphenyl-3 -pyrazolidone 1-phenyl-5-phenyl-3-pyrazolidone l-phenyl-5-methyl-3-pyrazolidone l-acetaminophenyl-3-pyrazolidone
  • the substances are all known per se and are, for example, described in the article by J. D. Kendall, Brit. J. phot. (1951) 5 39.
  • the concentration ratio between 3-pyrazolidone and o-phenylenediamine can vary within wide limits and can be adapted by means of a few preliminary tests to the requirements of the special copying process or to the properties of the color reversal material which is used.
  • the aqueous developer composition according to the invention contain in dissolved form between 2-10 g., preferably 46 g.', per liter of each of the developing agents according to the invention, preferably o-phenylenediamine and l-phenyl- 3-pyrazolidone.
  • the developer composition has a pH value of between 8.5 to 11.5, preferably between 10 to 11.
  • the developer combination according to the invention is in principle independent of the nature of the photographic color material.
  • the color couplers can be incorporated into the emulsion layer in a dissolved diflusion-resistant form. According to another method the color coupler is first dissolved in an oily organic material and this combination is then dispersed in a finely divided state throughout the emulsion.
  • the developer according to the invention can also be used in those reversal processes in which the so-called Successive Colorant Formation is applied. In this process the color coupler is incorporated into the color-forming developer composition. The successive color formation in each of the single layers of a multilayer material is obtained by controlled penetration of the processing solution.
  • the developers according to the invention can also contain the usual additions of stabilizers, antioxidants, valkalizing substances, etc.
  • Example 1 A multi-layer material on a paper support, containing a silver bromide layer with 3-(p-stearoylamino'benzoylacetamino) isophthalic acid as yellow coupler, as well as two silver chloride layers with 1 (3 sulpho 4- phenoxy) phenyl 3 heptadecyl 5 pyrazolone as magenta coupler and N octadecyl 1 hydroxy 4- sulpho 2 naphthamide as cyan coupler, is exposed and developed at a pH value of 10.0 for 4-5 minutes at 20 C. in a first reversal developer having the following composition:
  • the material After rinsing, the material is subsequently exposed in dilfused light and developed for 8 minutes in the following color developer:
  • Example 2 Black-and-white photographic reversal paper is exposed to the object to be reproduced and developed in the following first developer at a pH value of 10.0 for 5-6 minutes at 20 C.
  • the paper is rinsed and bleached for 5 minutes with:
  • Potassium dichromate g 5 Concentrated sulphuric acid cc 5 Made up with water to 1 liter.
  • the aqueous developer composition may contain in addition to the developing agents the other ingredients of a typical developing solution such as preservatives or anti-oxidants for instant alkali-metal sulfites or bisulfites in particular sodium sulfite or hydroxylamine; alkalis such as alkalimetal carbonates, borates or phosphates especially sodium carbonate; restrainers or antifo-gging agents such as p0- tassium bromide or benzotriazole or derivatives thereot; calcium precipitants or sequestering agents to prevent precipitation in hard water such as sodium tetraphosphate, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and the like.
  • a typical developing solution such as preservatives or anti-oxidants for instant alkali-metal sulfites or bisulfites in particular sodium sulfite or hydroxylamine; alkalis such as alkalimetal carbonates, borates or phosphates especially sodium carbonate; restrainers or antifo-gging
  • a photographic reversal black-and-white silver halide developer formulation having sodium sulfite in a proportion low enough to avoid dissolving silver halide from a silver halide emulsion, o-phenylene diamine, a 3- pyrazolidone in which the 1, 4 and 5 positions can be substituted by phenyl or alkyl of up to 4 carbons, and sufficient alkalizing agent to give the developer at pH between 8.5 and 11.5, the o-phenylene diamine and the 3-pyrazolidone being in the ratio of from 60:40 to 40:60.
  • step (i) thereafter fixing the photographic material, the improvement according to which developing step (b) is effected with the developer formulation of claim 1.
  • a process for the production of a photographic color-reversal image which comprises (a) exposing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic multi-layer material to an object to be reproduced; (b) developing the exposed photographic material in an aqueous developing composition containing a black-an-d-White developer; (c) rinsing the developed photographic material with water; ((1) subjecting the rinsed and developed material to a non-imagewise uniform exposure to actinic radiation; (e) developing the thus exposed material in the presence of color couplers in an aqueous developing composition containing a color-forming developer, the oxidation products of which are capable of reacting with said color coupler to form a dye, and (f) thereafter bleaching and fixing the photographic material; the improvement according to which developing step (b) is effected with the developer formulation of claim 1.

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US3883354A (en) * 1971-10-12 1975-05-13 Minnesota Mining & Mfg Color reversal process and developer
US4891309A (en) * 1987-06-04 1990-01-02 Konica Corporation Process for producing silver halide photographic paper
US5098819A (en) * 1990-01-31 1992-03-24 Knapp Audenried W Non-toxic photographic developer composition
US5110715A (en) * 1988-10-20 1992-05-05 Agfa Gavaert Aktiengesellschaft Photographic reversal process
US5491050A (en) * 1993-03-22 1996-02-13 Eastman Kodak Company Method of processing originating photographic elements containing tabular silver chloride grains bounded by (100) faces
DE19742490C1 (de) * 1997-09-26 1999-02-04 Agfa Gevaert Ag Fotografischer Schwarz-Weiß-Umkehrerstentwickler

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US3883354A (en) * 1971-10-12 1975-05-13 Minnesota Mining & Mfg Color reversal process and developer
US4891309A (en) * 1987-06-04 1990-01-02 Konica Corporation Process for producing silver halide photographic paper
US5110715A (en) * 1988-10-20 1992-05-05 Agfa Gavaert Aktiengesellschaft Photographic reversal process
US5098819A (en) * 1990-01-31 1992-03-24 Knapp Audenried W Non-toxic photographic developer composition
US5491050A (en) * 1993-03-22 1996-02-13 Eastman Kodak Company Method of processing originating photographic elements containing tabular silver chloride grains bounded by (100) faces
DE19742490C1 (de) * 1997-09-26 1999-02-04 Agfa Gevaert Ag Fotografischer Schwarz-Weiß-Umkehrerstentwickler
US6350563B1 (en) 1997-09-26 2002-02-26 Agfa-Gevaert Photographic black-and-white reversal first developer

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